Rand.



L. H. SHAW.

RAND. APPLICAT ION F lLED DEC. 12. 1912.

1,1 88,497. Patented June 27, 1916.

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LINUS H. SHAW, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 27, 1916.

Application filed December 12, 1912. Serial No. 736,350.

To all whom it may concern Be it know; that I, LINUS H. SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Bands, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to rands for boots and shoes and one of its objects is to provide a rand composed mainly or in a large part of leather-board or similar material which shall be capable of Satisfactory use under commercial conditions.

So far as I am aware leather-board rands have been found unsatisfactory heretofore chiefly because of the uncertain effect upon I themof the heel trimming cutter and of their liability to be pulled out of place or broken out in the trimming operation. Some such damage to the rand almost invariably follows in the trimming operation if any imperfection occurs in the union between the rand and the outsole. I have discovered, however, that if the upper surface of the rand is faced with leather, so that a leather rand surface engages the outsole, then no damage to the rand will result.

In one of its aspects, therefore, the present invention consists broadly in a leatherboard rand having its upper surface faced with leather.

It has been found that rands made in accordance with my invention may be constructed at a smaller cost than rands of any type heretofore known and in fact at a cost which will compare favorably with the cost of gouged lifts. dium grade shoes are being driven to substitute a lift of this kind for a rand but this substitution is detrimental to the shoe, making it tread badly and rendering the heel likely to check. I

An important feature of the invention consists in forming the leather facing for the leather-board rand as a strip of wedgeshaped cross section disposed with its thicker edge flush with the outer edge of the rand. In this way a resultant rand is produced having a thick margin which is a desirable characteristic in a rand.

In constructing a rand of the character Makers of cheap and meherein disclosed the leather-board and leather parts are stitched or otherwise permanently secured together and the result in the finished shoe is that the union between v able in securing therand to the heel or to the outsole. These and other advantages of the invention will be bestunderstood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which, I

Figure 1 is a v1ew in cross section of the rand shown in Fig. 8;Fig. 2 is a view in perspective of part of an-unformed rand;

Fig. 3 is a plan view. of a rand, and Fig.

at is a view partly in section showing the position of the rand in a finishedshoe.

As indicated in Figs. 1 and 2 the rand is constructed by first forming a strip 10 of leather-board, or similar material, of a width sufficient to extend from the margin of a heel to within the line of the heel attaching nails and having a wedge shaped cross section and then permanently securing a leather facing strip 12 to one surface. of the strip 10' by stitching or other fastening means.

The two-part stripv thus formed is finally bent into horseshoe-shape, the thin edge of the leather-board strip being crimped to take care of the surplus material.v This step completes the rand which is then in'condition to be tacked upon. the heel seat surface of a. heel blank and compressed with the heel blank in a heel compressor preparatory to its attachment to a shoe.

A leather skiving may be employed to good advantage as the leather facing strip 12. Skivings of this character are produced in large quantities in the manufacture of shoe counters and box toe stifi'eners. These skivings are neither sufliciently wide nor sufficiently thick at their outer edge to serve as rands but they are particularly well adapted for use as the leather facing of a leather-board rand because they serve to increase the thickness of the outer edge of the rand without'thickening its inner edge. Another advantage of using skivings of this character results from their small cost. Heretofore these skivings have had a value merely as Scrap and have been ground up and shredded to make leather-board. Their value in a rand of the character herein disclosed is very much greater than their value as scrap leather.

In Fig. 4 the position of the rand in a finished shoe is indicated. It will be seen that the leather-board strip 10 lies upon the leather-board body of the heel l6 and is penetrated by the heel attaching nails 2.0. The leather facing strip 12 engages the lower surface of the outsole 18. If there is any separation between the parts of the heel and sole it occurs almost invariably between the upper surface of the rand and the lower surface of the outsole and, as already intimated, when the rand is constructed entirely of leather-board the heel trimming cutter is likely to break out parts of the rand wherever the latter does not perfectly engage the outsole. The trimming cutter, however, has no tendency to damage .the leather facing strip 12 even though there may be imperfections in the union between it and the outside nor has it any tendency to damage the leather-board por- Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A leather-board rand of suitable width to extend from the outer curved edge of a heel to within the line of the heel attaching nails and having a facing of leather permanently secured in intimate contact upon its upper surface, which facing is adapted to be located adjacent to the leather outsole in a finished shoe.

2. A leather-board rand of suitable width to extend from the outer curved edge of a heel to within the line of the heel attaching nails and having a narrow facing of leather closely adhering to its upper surface, said facing comprising a leather skiving disposed upon its thicker edge flush with the outer curved edge of the rand and being adapted to be located adjacent to the outsole.

3. A leather-board rand of suitable width to extend from the outer curved edge of a heel to within the line of heel attaching nails and having a narrow leather facing of relatively high tensile strength closely adhering to its upper surface and extending inwardly from the outer edge of the rand so that the outer curved surface of the rand presents two dissimilar materials.

4. A rand comprising a skiving of leatherboard of a width sufficient to extend from the outer edge of a heel to within the line of heel attaching nails, and a permanently and closely attached narrower leather skiving, the leather-board skiving being adapted tobe attached to the heel seat lift of a leather-board heel and the leather skiving being adapted to be located adjacent to the outsole. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LINUS H. SHAW.

WVitnesses:

JAMES O. WRIGHT, EVERETT W. VARNEY.

women of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or Patents, Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,188,497, granted June 27, 1916,

upon the application of Linus H. Shaw, of Brockton, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Bands, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 63, claim 2, for the word upon read with; and

that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Offi06.-

Signed and sealed this 25th daj of July, A. D., 1916.

[SEAL] F. W. H. CLAY,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

